Just trawled the entire internet and there is no information on when Edith Birkhead (author of the seminal book of Gothic criticism 'The Tale of Terror'...
Colin, Your mind knows of no bounds with the literature, eh? My goodness. I am thinking the gal might have passed on? I honestly do not know. peace to you and...
Colin, Your mind knows of no bounds with the literature, eh? My goodness. I am thinking the gal might have passed on? I honestly do not know. peace to you and...
I found plenty of material on Edith Birkhead just by putting the name in Google Glen ... From: Colin To: Gothic_Lit@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December...
Hi Glen Can you provide a link? There is a wikipedia entry for her, true, but it doesn't give her date of birth or death. I couldn't find anything except...
Hi Emily, I've just recieved some info off list, by a mysterious lady, but have been sworn to secrecy about where it came from. Anyway my informant tells me...
Just been raising hackles amongst the Chtulu cultists on the Lovecraft wikipedia Talk Page by daring to suggest that Lovecraft was Gothic. People have been...
Hi Emily. I found one or two references. One on the Net http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n5/005742ar.html is a good short article Montague Summers...
Thanks Glen - I'm not pursuing info on Birkhead extensively, I should explain; I had noted your statement that there was plenty of material on her via Google,...
Yes, I'd agree with your response, Colin. If Gothic is, in essence, the 'tale of terror' (thank you Edith Birkhead) then yes, Lovecraft is Gothic. We could...
I would argue that Radcliffe's fiction encompasses sublime and supernatural gothic. True, her landscapes and the reactions of the characters to them are based...
I'm not a Lovecraft expert either, I just have the suspicion that if we read him with our Gothic lit crit spectacles on we will see much that is familiar. It...
Just amend that to say that the Halls of Eblis are 'terrible', not 'horrible'...(not that I've been there....) Colin ... if ... and ... Gothic ... of ... ...
Looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbiten Just to add that, though it is commonly thought that vampires come from Styria or Transylvania and...
Dear all, I am wondering if or where in the literature about RLStevenson the story of Major Weir, as a possible source for Stevenson's imagined Jekyll/Hyde may...
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Dear all, I've written an comparative review of Wharton's ghost story and the Granada gothic film adaptation, and I have put it on my blog with 9 stills to...
Hello... I've just this second joined the group and haven't yet had time to wander back through the postings. I was wondering what you, as a group, consider...
I would include "The Return," by Walter de la Mare, which is a later classic gothic. Colleen Michael <michoyl@...> wrote: Hello... I've just this second...
Well, your question is of course problematic - I don't know where we draw the boundaries, historically or generically, around the Gothic story. We could try...
Michael and list, As I signed on to write a reply to Michael's message, I saw that Emily had replied and said exactly what I had hoped to say, only much more...
I like to separate gothic literature into two categories: classic gothic, and post-classic gothic. Colleen "Alder, Emily" <em.alder@...> wrote: Well,...
So how do you separate them? Is it on basis of date published, or something else? What are some examples? Best, Emily ________________________________ From:...
Is everyone/anyone familiar with Ornella Volta's "The Vampire"? (An attempt at a serious study of the subject.) First read it as a kid in the 60s and I still...
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